I have several books that are currently looking for a nice, warm publishing home. If you happen to be an editor at a venerable publisher, or an agent who sells to such, let’s talk.

MindsBase Book 1: The Neverending Maize

What if you could live another life while you sleep? Fourteen-year-old AEGEAN poses this question to eleven-year-old RUBY as he hands her a small black box. It’s an easy decision for Ruby to join the technology-assisted dream world of MindsBase. She would live another life while awake, if she could. Unfortunately, MindsBase is just as messed up as day life. Aegean uncovers the tawdry underbelly of MindsBase on the day Ruby first logs on, so it’s too late for both of them. No one ever quits MindsBase.

Now, a growing body of malcontents threatens to destroy MindsBase…but how? With the weaponized programs called aegs? With rogue creature programs called progs? Or by using the very kids who thought they were protecting MindsBase?

All Ruby wanted was a normal life. Instead, she’s got two lives, and neither qualifies. Being freed from her body each night cracks Ruby’s stony exterior, and her presence lights a fire under easy-going Aegean. They’ll both never be normal again. But what’s so great about normal?

The Neverending Maize (85k) is a speculative/adventure novel for ages 10-14, set primarily inside the shared dream of MindsBase.

Snap! Goes the Gator Mouth

This picture book is about a little girl’s day where everyone seems to have turned into a snapping alligator. It’s a story that reminds kids that they aren’t to blame for the moods of others, but they may still have the power to change them.

Puffball, Hikol and Cheesy

This early chapter book is a magical story about what happens when three siblings combine a little magic ditch water with their well-loved toys.